Having been thrust into the center of championship-contender conversations since acquiring Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry from Boston, Brooklyn coach Jason Kidd has already begun thinking about how to keep his veteran core healthy. That starts with the likelihood of the 37-year-old Garnett not playing in back-to-back games this season.

“When you look at KG, probably no back-to-backs for him,” Kidd said on Friday at the Nassau Coliseum, where renovation plans for the aging arena were announced. “But those are just topics right now that we’re throwing around to try and keep these guys minutes down because we are deep. [We’ll] try and get to that 10, 11 [person] rotation early in the season and keep that there because you want to be fresh going into the playoffs and we feel like we have 15 guys that can play.”

The Nets, who will play one preseason game and host one open practice at the new Coliseum each year, are scheduled to play 20 back-to-back games this season.

Garnett was a workhouse during his first 12 seasons in Minnesota, rarely missing a game while playing 38 minutes or more in nearly season with the Timberwolves, but since joining the Celtics in 2007, Garnett has not reached 33 minutes in any season.

This past season, Garnett played in 68 games and averaged 29:41 of playing time, his lowest since his rookie season.